Basic Yoga Practice for Complete Beginners - 40 minutes

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This video is Yoga for Complete Beginners. We will learn basic yoga poses. This is a great workout for total beginners to improve strength, flexibility, and balance. No prior experience necessary! The pace is slow and clear instructions are given for each pose. Take it easy and be patient with yourself as you learn the practice.

We do some poses on our knees. If you have sensitive knees, use a towel or a blanket to cushion them.

In the first few minutes, we focus on our breathing and do gentle warm-up and stretches. Then we move on to lunge, standing postures, and a balance pose. We end with floor poses - twists, hip stretches, and relaxation.

If you want to learn Tree pose in more detail, watch this short tutorial:

After this practice, you may use my 5-minute guided relaxation (corpse pose/savasana) here:

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[virginiamccruden]

This was wonderful. Thank you. I am in a flair up and this really reduced some of my symptoms this morning

[samchaucer]

Throwback Thursday :D
Even as someone who does yoga quite often, it feels really good to get back to basics, step by step, from time to time... And who could be a better teacher for this than you 💚

[lotusquel]

This is such a great video - first time doing it yesterday and it was exactly what I needed to ease my way back into yoga.

[saritaelqady]

Thank you so much for the great videos. I used to do yoga for three years and I was practicing your advanced videos but I stopped for a year and I am back now starting with your beginner videos and they are really amazing.

[julieyassin]

You're my favorite yoga teacher. I love all of your classes on YouTube.

[Zoraloner]

Thanks Maris! I feel more relaxed than I have in weeks :)

[MsIndianchef]

Maris, I really enjoy your routines! Your voice is so soothing and I really appreciate how you explain all of the poses. I am a relative beginner and your go at your own pace type of instruction is so helpful.

[caroldcosta]

Great session for elderly practitioners!

[Snoogable]

Hello Maris, thank you for these great videos. We used to do yoga years ago and starting all over now as beginners. We've been looking for a yoga teacher with specific qualities and found what we needed with you. We love your soothing, meditative yoga voice. We were also looking for a teacher that incorporates 5 minutes of savasana at the end, which you do, but sadly not on all videos. We were so disappointed to get to the end of this video and no savasana-just verbal instructions to find and click on your savasana video if we wanted to do that. Please do us a big favor and add savasana to this video and any others that don't have it. It is really unnatural and jaring to have to bring ourselves out of a meditative state to get a different savasana video loaded up. Thank you!

[mariel]

Thank you very much! Love your Yoga Upload) the best yoga for me))

[julieyassin]

A beautiful way to start my day! Thank you! I love your videos.

[serROBOCAP]

Wow!  Thank you for sharing this to everyone, Ms. Aylward!  Truly, you're a Person-for-Others!

[bryancampbell]

Thank you so much for these videos Maris! I've been following them for the past few weeks, I think you have a real gift for creating safe well considered sequences and sharing them with clarity, humility, and generosity! Thanks so much!

[lovemac]

Loved it, it’s my favourite morning practice from now on, thank you Maris💜, namaste 🙏

[marydykstra]

Maris, I really like this routine. Your calm voice and explanation of each pose is so helpful. I purchased a thick (5/8 inch) mat to protect my bony knees and hip bones, but now am finding that the mat stretches when I am in Down Dog. Is there a mat you can recommend to use over the one I have? Or another mat altogether? I don't get sweaty. Thanks!

[zealmae]

Thank you so much. I do not have budget yet for lessons. And Miss Maxene Magalona said that she watches your videos. Thank you very much Ma'am ❤

[mayumayu]

I love your video! I was just curious that who is your teacher? where did you learn?

[gualey]

where is the 5minutes mediation video?

[pauls]

It was too easy...followed everything you said...did not work up a sweat